Sentences with phrase «of plain surfaces»

Among the works included in the exhibition are Day and Night, (1978), a suite of three prints by Jennifer Bartlett; Fred Becker's John Henry Suite (1935 - 39) that the artist made during his years as a member of the WPA's Federal Arts Project; and a series of photographs by Aaron Siskind, best known for his detailed views of plain surfaces, who died last year at the age of 100.

The minimalist body consists of plain surfaces and round roof with straight lines that give it a distinctive stance.

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Finally, there's plain old surgery, or cutting the tag off the surface of the skin.

The project site is situated in the rolling hills of the high desert region of the far western Snake River Plain and consists of 3 patented (private) lode claims where the deposit is located, 418 unpatented lode claims, 9 mill site claims, 6 associated placer claims, and various leased fee land surface and surface / mineral rights, all totalling about 9,300 acres.

Following St. Paul, the Church Fathers argued that a surface reading of the Old Testament, what Origen calls the «plain» meaning, missed what was most important in the Bible: Jesus Christ.

Purchased plain white T - shirt of good quality (in grandma's size and toddler size) Different colors of fabric paint Old plastic containers Flat work surface covered in newspaper

New maps of the rocky planet's surface, based on images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, show that Venus» low - lying plains are surrounded by a complex network of ridges...

Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the many regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered during the first close - up look at the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

The best global view of the heavily cratered surface of Mercury — a mosaic of more than 140 images snapped by Mariner 10 in March 1974 — reveals expansive plains that may have been created by volcanic activity.

One such spot «is looking quite promising,» he says: Arcadia Planitia, a smooth plain on Mars that appears to have large quantities of ice near the surface.

Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

Whereas the nodules are scattered across the deep abyssal plains of the oceans, hundreds of miles from shore and typically three miles or more below the surface, many of the sulfide deposits are close to a coastline; also, they are always on undersea mountains and therefore located in much shallower water.

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

NASA deliberately crashed the MESSENGER spacecraft into the planet last week; during its final year of life, the craft repeatedly skirted close to the surface, detecting magnetized terrain, such as over the volcanic plains shown in blue here (blue denotes low elevations and red, high elevations).

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

Deep underneath the open sea lies the other major topographic surface of the seafloor, the relatively flat abyssal plain.

The combination of a relatively plain surface on the egg itself (no pores, for instance) plus a filament crown helps distinguish this water bear as a new species, now named Macrobiotus shonaicus, he and colleagues report February 28 in PLOS ONE.

Manga, who models the internal heat flow of Mars, such as the rising plumes of molten rock that erupt into volcanoes at the surface, tried to explain the irregular shorelines of the plains of Mars 11 years ago with another theory.

The new images are intriguing NASA astronomers with views of flows of nitrogen ice spreading from mountains onto flat plains, possible dune regions, and networks of valleys carved into Pluto's surface by as yet unknown materials.

Europa is also covered in bands that form wide arcs striping the surface, with the remainder being comprised of ridged plain regions.

If the world of geophysics has a vision of El Dorado it would be something like this: the ability to see into the uppermost surface of the earth's crust with the very same accuracy that we see the earth's obvious features — its rivers, rocks, mountains and plains.

Ridged plains and chaos are the most abundant features making up over 90 % of the surface.

What they do know is that it's journey to Earth began after something hit the surface of the Red Planet (probably a lava plain or volcano), causing rocks to be ejected into space.

As nitrogen ice on the surface of the plain cools, it recedes, only to be replaced by a rising blob of nitrogen that has been warmed by Pluto's meagre internal heat source.

New Horizons made many images of Pluto, including this one of mountains and plains across its surface.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

The contrast between the colors of the Caloris basin floor and those of the surrounding plains indicate that the composition of Mercury's surface is variable.

These moraines were directly linked to the main outwash plain where Monte Verde was emplaced, that is, the fluvial system in the study area was part of a much wider surface directly draining glacier discharge.

They believe the islands are ancient terrain and the plains were laid down more recently — evidence that bits and pieces of the planet have been resurfaced at different times, leaving much of the planet's older surface intact.

Suddenly you've got a vignette instead of simply a plain surface.

However, when it says it's textured, it means the chunky pieces, either due to the pieces piling up on themselves or to just plain being chunky, tend to stick up in places, leaving bumps on the surface of the mostly - smooth nail.

When Jamal goes into the moat in pursuit of a golden medallion, he surfaces from a fetid stew in a never - never land where the plain protagonist becomes the keystone in a kingdom - wide intrigue.

The dash is no longer shared with the pickup trucks, and the broad, plain expanse of the previous model has been junked in favor of a richer design with soft - touch surfaces separated by metal and wood trim.

That was the biggest revelation from driving the Limited on a lot of different road surfaces: The car is just plain silent.

The seats look a bit plain, with their long expanses of flat leather surfaces.

It sits on the plain like an oil tanker at anchor, and the view from its peak reveals something like an ocean caught in freeze frame, an undulating, unpopulated vista, unpopulated except for wild horses and the shadows of single clouds sliding over the surface like dark slugs.

Ordinary grass and pasture can be used, but 25 % of the track for Tests 1 to 4 must be laid on surfaces other than plain grass.

Cottage Ultimate Bliss has 13 buildings with total area of more than one hectare, with trees on the plains stretching to the topography (shape Earth's surface) are different.

Building a tapestry of structure and dimension through a weaving of loose and tightly knit brush strokes, Casteel builds upon the canvas» plain surface an orchestra of color and texture, with the application of paint not unlike the caress of a familiar hand.

On larger works Mr. Kim's initials «Y» and «G» and the last two numbers of the year in which the painting was produced are painted in red somewhere in plain view on the canvas surface.

The exhibition looks at feelings of longing as a place, an image, a plain, a surface and a projection.

Yet at first glance the canvases, which were up to 14ft in length, looked like nothing at all - just plain white surfaces» (Y. Kusama, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, Tate 2011).

He stands between Pablo Picasso's first discovery of the plain welded surface and Smith's Abstract Expressionism.

Bush, himself, was like a Morley Callaghan character — plain - speaking on the surface, complex underneath — and his manner of painting was the visual equivalent of Callaghan's very «Canadian» prose: flatfooted, unadorned, coarse - grained and somehow the better for it.

Stunning stuff, straight from the heart of an artist who knew, above all, about entrancing a viewer with just raw materials and a plain surface.

This plain, two - dimensional everyday material is here transformed into an apocalyptic topography of densely layered molten form, a surface of post-industrial volcanic craters, or blistered and healing skin.

A monumental monochromatic field of subdued color fulfills the role of straight - man to Prince's comic texts, sometimes presented plain and direct, sometime articulated in ghostly printed letters that seem to wax and wane in intensity across the canvas, and in the case of Untitled (Check Painting) # 13, text that has a material quality — painted over literal paper checks embedded into the canvas surface.

Constructed with layers of cut plain paper, the miniature relief images become visible when light casts shadows across the surface, demarcating and defining space to complete the work.»